The artist's studio will be like a glass-bell or a hollow crystal. The painter himself must be white, which is to say, without tragedy or sorrow. The pallet must be of glass; the brush must be square and hard, dust-free and as immaculate as a surgical instrument. Doubtless there is much to learn from a medical laboratory… …The studio of the modern painter must reflect the ambience of mountains which are nine thousand feet high and topped with a eternal cap of snow. There the cold kills the microbes.

'Elementarism', in De Stijl – Van Doesburg Issue, January 1932, pp. 17-19